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en-usSat, 28 Mar 2015 14:08:40 GMTFocus Forum15FL: Shooter Found not guilty after 4 years in Jail; Driver serving 30 year Sentencehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3273153/posts
In a bizarre domestic case in Florida, a jury has found the man who shot and killed his former girlfriend&#x27;s boyfriend and severely wounded her, not guilty.&#xA0; The father of the girlfriend&#x27;s four children drove the shooter to and from the shooting, and had been the employee of the shooter. &#xA0; The driver was also a convicted felon.&#xA0; The shooting occurred in 2009.&#xA0; The driver was convicted in 2010 and is serving a 30 year sentence for being an accessory to murder, after the fact.&#xA0; From tbo.com: A jury last month found Eric William &#x22;Scooter&#x22; Bazemore guilty of the...Gun Watchhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3273153/posts#commentSat, 28 Mar 2015 14:08:40 GMTFed: Foreign banks operating in the US not currently held to same capital standards as US Banks?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261032/posts
The questioner (Rep. Richard Shelby, R AL) just asked Mrs. Yellen if foreign banks operating in the US were held to the same capital standards as US banks. She responded [paraphrase] that &#x22;we have asked foreign banks to create holding companies in the US to contain their US operations&#x22;...Meaning that, apparently, such banks are not held to the same capitalization standards (6 years into the Great Financial Crisis) and have therefore a competitive advantage.CNBC's feedhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261032/posts#commentTue, 24 Feb 2015 17:18:50 GMTTSA Demands Internal Passport for Domestic Travelhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3256967/posts
TSA Demands Internal Passport for Domestic Travel By: Wendy McElroy | Tue, Feb 10, 2015 Share Print Email Precedents exist for requiring citizens to produce special ID for domestic travel; they include Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa and Russia (both Imperial and Soviet).Over the Christmas season, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) quietly announced that America was walking down that path. By 2016, all domestic air travel will require either a traditional passport or a federally-compliant ID card called &#x22;Real ID.&#x22; State driver&#x27;s licenses will no longer allow Americans access to domestic flights, as they do now. Real ID will constitute...SafeHavenhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3256967/posts#commentThu, 12 Feb 2015 23:58:49 GMTThe highly sophisticated hacking of Sharyl Attkisson&#x27;s computershttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220383/posts
From the moment that Sharyl Attkisson met a shadowy source I&#x92;ll call Big Mac, she was plunged into a nightmare involving mysterious surveillance of her computers. They met at a McDonald&#x92;s in Northern Virginia at the beginning of 2013, and the source (she dubs him Number One) warned her about the threat of government spying. During their next hamburger rendezvous, Big Mac told Attkisson, then a CBS News reporter constantly at odds with the Obama administration, that he was &#x93;shocked&#x94; and &#x93;flabbergasted&#x94; by his examination of her computer and that this was &#x93;worse than anything Nixon ever did.&#x94; Attkisson&#x92;s forthcoming...Fox Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3220383/posts#commentTue, 28 Oct 2014 13:06:07 GMTNFL, NFLPA agree to neutral arbitrator in Ray Rice&#x27;s appealhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3209242/posts
Article is excerpted per Copyright List. The NFL and the NFL Players Association have agreed to a neutral arbitrator to hear the appeal for indefinitely suspended former Ravens running back Ray Rice. No hearing date or hearing officer have been determined yet, though, as talks continue between NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Smith addressed the development in an email to NFL players this afternoon, noting that potential candidates for the arbitration have been exchanged.baltimoresun.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3209242/posts#commentTue, 30 Sep 2014 01:08:57 GMTTN: Armed &#x22;Good Samaritan&#x22; Defends Self, in the Middle of a &#x22;Domestic&#x22;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3207661/posts
In this case reported from Antioch, Tennessee, a domestic argument ends with a stranger being drawn into a potentially deadly encounter.&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0;&#xA0; The accused and a woman were arguing, and the accused told her to to get out of the car on the Interstate.&#xA0;&#xA0; A stranger, seeing a woman walking on the Interstate, stopped to ask if she needed help.&#xA0;&#xA0; Shortly after, the accused came back, stopped, drew a pistol and pointed it at the two.&#xA0;&#xA0; The stranger drew his own gun, words were exchanged, and the accused drove off.&#xA0;&#xA0; No shots were fired. Talk to any police officer, and...Gun Watchhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3207661/posts#commentThu, 25 Sep 2014 11:33:54 GMTWhen Journalists Commit Domestic Violencehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3206956/posts
Lo and behold, it seems that the media itself has a domestic violence problem. Ten cases discovered at first Google. Which is twice as many, to be specific, as the five cases that have had the media in such a frenzy over domestic violence in the National Football League. Where are these ten cases to be found? Two cases at ESPN, with the rest spread out over affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC and, yes, the New York Times. And there are others for television stations not affiliated with the major networks. With all this massive focus on what the Wall...American Spectatorhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3206956/posts#commentTue, 23 Sep 2014 16:53:51 GMTNFL orders abuse awareness traininghttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205809/posts
All NFL team personnel and staff will be required to undergo training on the prevention of domestic violence and sexual assault starting within 30 days, according to a letter commissioner Roger Goodell sent to team owners. The development came as Goodell on Friday readied to make his first public statements in more than a week about the rash of NFL players involved in domestic violence. His news conference is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET in New York, his first public appearance since attending a high school function in North Carolina on Sept. 10.ESPNhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205809/posts#commentFri, 19 Sep 2014 17:54:32 GMTGoodell to make statement Friday; NFL to partner with abuse hotlineshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205798/posts
oger Goodell will make his first public statements in more than a week about the rash of NFL players involved in domestic violence when he holds a news conference Friday. The NFL commissioner will address the league&#x27;s personal conduct policy. The league has faced increasing criticism it has not acted quickly or emphatically enough concerning the domestic abuse cases. .................................................... Goodell sent a memo to the clubs late Thursday announcing the partnerships. The league will provide financial, operational and promotional support to the National Domestic Violence Hotline and the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.APhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205798/posts#commentFri, 19 Sep 2014 17:28:34 GMTWhite House: NFL needs to &#x22;get a handle&#x22; on domestic violencehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205715/posts
The White House Thursday sternly told the NFL that &#x22;it&#x27;s important that the league get a handle&#x22; on players who commit child abuse and domestic violence and that the league must &#x22;have a zero tolerance&#x22; regarding those issues. A senior administration official told reporters during a briefing about a new White House public awareness campaign on preventing sexual assaults on college campuses that &#x22;the most recent revelations of abuse by the NFL players is really deeply troubling.&#x22;CBS Newshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205715/posts#commentFri, 19 Sep 2014 14:16:44 GMTGreg Hardy (Carolina Panthers) placed on exempt listhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3205074/posts
Carolina Panthers star defensive end Greg Hardy has agreed to be placed on the NFL&#x27;s exempt list. Hardy, who has been convicted on two domestic violence charges, will not play or participate in team activities but will receive his full $13.1 million salary. The Panthers made the move Wednesday afternoon, less than 24 hours after the Minnesota Vikings made the same decision with embattled running back Adrian Peterson.ESPNhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3205074/posts#commentWed, 17 Sep 2014 20:45:38 GMTNancy Pelosi Says NFL Player Under Investigation for Domestic Abuse Should Be Benchedhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205018/posts
ouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says her hometown NFL team, the San Francisco 49ers, should not allow defensive end Ray McDonald to play while he is being investigated over accusations that he hit his pregnant fiancee. But Pelosi stopped short of saying Congress at this point should itself look into the NFL&#x27;s handling of this matter and other prominent recent cases of player-inflicted violence, given its role in the league&#x27;s special antitrust exemptions.National Journalhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205018/posts#commentWed, 17 Sep 2014 18:06:07 GMTThe Rate of Domestic Violence Arrests Among NFL Playershttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3204153/posts
Although there seems to be an endless stream of stories about NFL player arrests and misconduct, this is largely because there are a lot of NFL players (and they&#x92;re famous). At the league&#x92;s peak (during training camps), there are about 2,560 players attached to NFL teams (limit 80 each). As I&#x92;ll show, arrest rates among NFL players are quite low compared to national averages for men in their age range &#x97; but there are some types of crimes that trail the pack significantly.FivetThirtyEighthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3204153/posts#commentMon, 15 Sep 2014 13:47:12 GMTFBI National Domestic Threat Assessment Omits Islamist Terrorismhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3198556/posts
The FBI&#x92;s most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year&#x92;s Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting&#x97;both carried out by radical Muslim Americans.The Washington Free Beaconhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3198556/posts#commentFri, 29 Aug 2014 20:32:29 GMTGay domestic violence: the hatred that dare not speak its namehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183360/posts
To be clear, in America&#x27;s polite upper-middleclass circles, gay domestic violence is the hatred that dare not speak its name. Ditto &#x22;progressive&#x22; Australia. For the media class, at least, would prefer to talk about white picket fences, rainbow flags and same-sex wedding cakes. The message: Think pretty things. Still, even MSNBC can&#x27;t wish away ugliness. As one underreported UCLA study found: Although reported incidences of intimate partner violence, or IPV, are widespread, especially among women and certain ethnic groups, reported IPV was surprisingly high among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in California, who are almost twice as likely to experience violence...On Line Opinionhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3183360/posts#commentTue, 22 Jul 2014 04:50:21 GMTOH: 71-Year-Old CCW Holder Stops Domestic Murderhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3178367/posts
Jerold Evans, 19, was upset with his ex-girlfriend.&#xC2;&#xA0; He apparently decided that the way to end his negative emotion was to use a .45 on her.&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0; He did not count on a member of the gun culture being on hand and intervening.&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0; Bobby Howard, 71, had a concealed carry permit, a handgun, and the will to use it.&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0; As Evans menaced his Ex with the loaded .45, Mr. Howard assessed the situation, drew his weapon, and stopped the threat.&#xC2;&#xA0;&#xC2;&#xA0; From the Toledo Blade: Owner of Howard&#xC2;&#x91;s&#xE2;&#x80;&#x8D;, Bobby Howard, 71, shot Jerold Evans, 19, inside the store at about 11:15...Gun Watchhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3178367/posts#commentThu, 10 Jul 2014 14:24:27 GMTSupreme Court Limits Use of Chemical Weapons Treaty for Domestic Crimeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3163787/posts
WASHINGTON&#x97;The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously rejected the Justice Department&#x27;s effort to expand the Chemical Weapons Convention&#x27;s reach into garden-variety domestic crimes, throwing out the federal conviction of a Pennsylvania woman who used a chemical irritant to get back at a romantic rival. The Chemical Weapons Convention, implemented through a 1998 law, &#x22;deals with crimes of deadly seriousness,&#x22; Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court, rejecting its use to prosecute a minor assault. The ruling maintained the government&#x27;s ability to use the treaty when going after major crimes, including acts of terrorism. Prosecutors have invoked the treaty in domestic...WSJhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3163787/posts#commentWed, 4 Jun 2014 22:37:01 GMTAttorney General Eric Holder Revives Domestic Terror Task Forcehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3163095/posts
&#x93;But now, as the nature of the threat we face evolves to including the possibility of individual radicalization via the Internet, it is critical that we return our focus to potential extremists here at home,&#x94; Holder saidnbcnews.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3163095/posts#commentTue, 3 Jun 2014 13:32:03 GMTBay Area Whistleblower Mark Klein Finds &#x22;Vindication&#x22; Through Edward Snowdenhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3161496/posts
Ten years before Edward Snowden revealed his bombshell that the United States government was electronically spying on people on a massive scale there was Bay Area-resident Mark Klein. Nannett Miranda reports. Ten years before Edward Snowden revealed his bombshell that the United States government was electronically spying on people on a massive scale there was Bay Area resident Mark Klein. As a San Francisco-based AT&#x26;T technician in 2003, he installed a splitter that sent a copy of communications data to a secret room set up by the NSA in his South of Market office building. &#x22;I knew right away that...NBC Bay Areahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3161496/posts#commentThu, 29 May 2014 20:43:36 GMTLet&#x27;s call it patriotismhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3146142/posts
A government unloosed from its authorizing document, in open revolt against the principles laid out and defined therein, with the will, intent and ability to execute citizens for trivial offenses, basically parking tickets (oops, forgot to feed the meter on the cattle) is, by definition, a domestic terrorist. The politicians and agents involved in such criminal activity as theft of property (water rights in U.S. v Hage a similar, but much more egregious case than the issue with Cliven Bundy) involving the BLM, determined by the judge to be involved in a criminal conspiracy is the definition of domestic terrorists....Christian Mercenaryhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3146142/posts#commentFri, 18 Apr 2014 23:36:34 GMTAL:Birmingham woman shoots ex-boyfriend hiding in her basementhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3106329/posts
A Birmingham woman shot an ex-boyfriend who she found hiding in her house last night. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff&#x27;s office, the 32-year-old female called authorities around 7 p.m. yesterday to tell them that her ex-boyfriend had broken into her house and she had shot him. The victim says she went to her basement to smoke, when she realized that her ex-boyfriend was in the basement. He smashed her phone when she tried to call 911, before chasing her around the basement. The woman took a gun from her pocket and shot the 34-year-old in the leg. When he...alabamas13.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3106329/posts#commentSun, 29 Dec 2013 17:18:21 GMTMeet the Spies Doing the NSA&#x27;s Dirty Work (*FBI*)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3094839/posts
This obscure FBI unit does the domestic surveillance that no other intelligence agency can touch. With every fresh leak, the world learns more about the U.S. National Security Agency&#x27;s massive and controversial surveillance apparatus. Lost in the commotion has been the story of the NSA&#x27;s indispensable partner in its global spying operations: an obscure, clandestine unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that, even for a surveillance agency, keeps a low profile. When the media and members of Congress say the NSA spies on Americans, what they really mean is that the FBI helps the NSA do it, providing a...Foreign Policyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3094839/posts#commentSun, 24 Nov 2013 02:32:23 GMTPA:Man fatally shoots girlfriend&#x27;s ex in Brighton Heights, Pittsburgh police sayhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3081841/posts
A woman&#x27;s boyfriend fatally shot the armed ex-boyfriend who attacked her in her Brighton Heights home early Sunday, Pittsburgh police said. The Allegheny County Medical&#x27;s Examiner&#x27;s Office identified the dead man as Curtis Edmonds, 37, of Brighton Heights. Police did not identify the shooter or the woman. The shooter, a 39-year-old man from Penn Hills, was not charged. (snip) Online court records did not show any protection from abuse orders filed against Edmonds. He had convictions on his record related to drugs and possessing a firearm despite previous felonies. He arrived early Sunday, confronted her and forced his way in....triblive.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3081841/posts#commentTue, 22 Oct 2013 01:24:49 GMTNV:Man identified in attempted North Las Vegas murder-suicide(armed neighbor saves wounded wife)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3079707/posts
The preliminary investigation indicates the husband and wife were separated. The woman went to her former home to exchange some sort of property. A dispute erupted and the husband shot the wife. She made it into the front yard before collapsing. A neighbor, armed with a handgun, rescued the woman from the yard and moved her to safety.jrn.comhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3079707/posts#commentWed, 16 Oct 2013 16:28:16 GMTThe Big Cover Up &#x96; Why Obama Really Wants to Go to War in Syriahttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3066871/posts
That is the answer to the questions &#x93;Why Syria? Why now? How does this benefit America?&#x94; Obama&#x92;s war is a desperate attempt to keep his own most loyal supporters from noticing that his policies have ruined their lives and set their economic progress back decades. His policies have sent black Americans in particular hurtling back to the days of poverty and racial inequality. Obama is desperate to keep his own voters from noticing he is the worst thing to happen to them in their lifetimes. His socialist policies don&#x92;t solve poverty, they cause poverty. And it&#x92;s no surprise. Socialism, income...The Blazehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3066871/posts#commentSat, 14 Sep 2013 22:57:53 GMT